Two decades ago, hundreds of people in psychotherapy began claiming that they could recall long-buried memories of having taken part in satanic rituals involving animal and human torture and sacrifice
Yet the FBI was unable to confirm any of these reports. Based on what you have learned so far, how might you explain such "memories"?
What will be an ideal response?
Therapists who uncritically assumed that satanic cults were widespread may have asked leading questions and otherwise influenced their patients. Patients who were susceptible to their therapists' interpretations may have then confabulated and "remembered" experiences that did not happen, borrowing details from fictionalized accounts or from other troubling experiences in their lives. The result was source misattribution and the patients' mistaken conviction that their memories were real.
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_____ argued that people react to the world as they see it and not as how it is. Correcting these irrational beliefs is a defining feature of a therapy termed _____.
A) Kurt Lewin; cognitive restructuring B) Kurt Lewin; mindfulness meditation C) Karl Lashley; cognitive restructuring D) Karl Lashley; mindfulness meditation
Tom believes he deals with conflict by using a pragmatic approach that acknowledges the needs of both parties. He tries to meet others halfway. His style is most likely
a. accommodating. c. compromising. b. avoiding. d. collaborating.
A reliable test
A. measures what it was designed to measure. B. measures what it measures consistently. C. has good validity. D. measures many different concepts at once.
When a person assigns causes to another individual's behavior and assumes that the behavior is due to that individual's personal characteristics, a(n) ________ is made
A) situational attribution B) internal attribution C) attribution error D) external attribution